Medicaid Contract Bidding

Tis' the season for organizations that are interested in applying for state medicaid MCO contracts to start bidding. These organizations must show that they will have a sufficient amount of providers interested in being a part of the network by submitting letters of intent with their applications. Many of you may have already begun to recieve letters of intent and proposed fee schedules from varying organizations asking that you join their medicaid network.

Most of these letters are to show that providers have the desire to work with these organizations if they are approved as a new MCO. This does not commit a provider to anything as these letters are non-binding, but it assists these organizations in showing that they can properly meet Medicaid demands for statewide support.

At this time we are asking that you hold off on signing these letters, we are also asking that you send over any fee schedules that you receive from these organizations to your support team. Five Lakes will be reviewing these fee schedules and closely monitoring the activity during this bidding season.